Table 1.

Number of IFN genes identified in humans, mice and four species of bats .

	IFN- α	IFN-β	IFN- δ	IFN-ε	IFN-κ	IFN-ω
Human	13	1	0	1	1	1
Mouse	14	1	0	1	1	0
R. aegyptiacus	12	1	9	1	1	22
P. alecto	3	1	0	1	0	5
P. vampyrus	7	1	14	1	1	28
M. lucifugous	2	1	19	2	2	25

Adapted from van Pesch et al., 2004; Pavlovich et al.; 2018, Zhou et al., 2016.